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Strengthen U.S.-Israel Bilateral Military Cooperation
(Bloomberg) James Stavridis - While the U.S. and Israel already have an extraordinary level of defense integration, there are still important zones of potential improvement. These include better intelligence sharing; joint work on cyber options, especially vis-a-vis Iran; increased partnering on defense procurement, particularly in missile defense; and maritime operations in both the Eastern Mediterranean (where Israel has significant challenges protecting its nascent offshore gas infrastructure) and the Bab-el-Mandeb strait at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. The Israelis will continue to be the closest allies for the U.S. in the most turbulent and war-torn region of the world. The writer, a retired U.S. Navy admiral and former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, is dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.